A failure in pubic policy

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EDITORIAL – The federal Liberal leadership race managed to garner some attention this week when front-runner Justin Trudeau did the unusual and stated a case of the blindingly obvious.
It is rare in party politics for the players to ever give an inch and/or admit mistakes when they come along.
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The federal Liberal leadership race managed to garner some attention this week when front-runner Justin Trudeau did the unusual and stated a case of the blindingly obvious.
It is rare in party politics for the players to ever give an inch and/or admit mistakes when they come along.
So it was refreshing to hear Mr. Trudeau describe the now-gone long gun registry exactly as it was – a failure in public policy.
From the beginning the registry has been divisive in Canadian politics, consistently drawing a line between urban and rural constituencies. And after less than a decade of full implementation the program was scandalized by huge cost overruns and very little actual proof it was accomplishing much for public safety.
At the same time the Liberal Party of Canada went from owning every seat in Ontario to less than a dozen today, with most of those coming in the urban centres of Ottawa and Toronto.
Indeed, Parry Sound/Muskoka was a Liberal riding from 1993 until 2006 under respected MP Andy Mitchell, who lost his seat on the gun registry issue by 21 votes to now Treasury Board President Tony Clement. And in the last election Liberal MP Anthony Rota – then national caucus chair in a riding that had stayed Liberal since 1988 – ran out of stick handling room on the registry and lost the riding to a school board trustee by 18 votes.
These two examples, and dozens upon dozens of others across the country, demonstrate the gun registry was indeed a failure – especially for the Liberal Party.
, consistently drawing a line between urban and rural constituencies. And after less than a decade of full implementation the program was scandalized by huge cost overruns and very little actual proof it was accomplishing much for public safety.
At the same time the Liberal Party of Canada went from owning every seat in Ontario to less than a dozen today, with most of those coming in the urban centres of Ottawa and Toronto.
Indeed, Parry Sound/Muskoka was a Liberal riding from 1993 until 2006 under respected MP Andy Mitchell, who lost his seat on the gun registry issue by 21 votes to now Treasury Board President Tony Clement. And in the last election Liberal MP Anthony Rota – then national caucus chair in a riding that had stayed Liberal since 1988 – ran out of stick handling room on the registry and lost the riding to a school board trustee by 18 votes.
These two examples, and dozens upon dozens of others across the country, demonstrate the gun registry was indeed a failure – especially for the Liberal Party.